{"id":37,"date":"2013-12-11T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surehairtransplants.com\/shidev\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2015-07-28T19:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:28:46","slug":"robotic-fue-hair-transplant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/surehairtransplants.com\/robotic-fue-hair-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Manual FUE Hair Transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many people have may have heard of a relatively new technique in hair transplantation called the FUE method. FUE stands for Follicular Unit Extraction. Basically the “Uni-Strand” TM and FUE are similar in that the doctor and his staff take the hair from the donor area by removing each hair follicle, properly called a follicular unit, one at a time. Each follicular unit is taken out with a small punch. The advantage to this method is that the doctor does not actually have to make a cut in the donor area. The healing is faster and there is no need for stitches. This has led some doctors to say that there is no scar since there is no linear cut.<\/p>\n
The FUE technique has been a welcome addition to the hair transplant technology. However, it does have limitations. First of all, it does leave very small scars in the donor area. These scars are usually too small to be seen even with a very short hair cut. Secondly, there can be a high transection rate of the grafts. Many potentially healthy grafts can be lost this way. Also the technique is labor intensive and it can take almost all day just to remove thousands of grafts. It is also more costly than the “Uni-Strand \u00ae” method. For the right patient, with the right needs in good hands, it can be a very valuable technique.<\/p>\n
In this hair restoration procedure, a 0.7 mm punch is used to make a small circular incision in the skin around the upper part of the follicular unit. The unit is then extracted directly from the scalp.<\/p>\n
Because FUE does not leave a linear scar it is used for patients who want to wear their hair very short, less than a # 1 on your clippers.<\/p>\n
FUE’s main limitation, when compared to “Uni-Strand \u00ae”, is that it is less efficient in harvesting hair from the donor area. We find it is best reserved for patients that do no require large areas to be transplanted or with minimal hair loss requirements.<\/p>\n
FUE, in fact, is a type “Uni-Strand \u00ae” where the follicular units are extracted directly from the scalp, rather than being microscopically dissected from a strip that has already been removed. To say it another way, with “Uni-Strand \u00ae”, individual follicular units can be obtained in one of two ways; either through single strip harvesting and stereo microscopic dissection, or through FUE. The finished result where the hair is transplanted will appear identical.<\/p>\n
The table below summarizes the pros and cons of Follicular Unit Extraction. Vs. the “Uni-Strand \u00ae” method.<\/p>\n
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